How to connect FreeBSD Jail to network
- by jgtumusiime
So recently I successfully installed and configured a freebsd jail and I would like to install
software within my jail but I cannot connect to the network. I'm trying to setup an apache+php+mysql installation within the jail and have the webserver accessible by users. Here is my rc.conf for the jail.
...
jail_enable="YES" # Set to NO to disable starting of any jails
jail_list="mambo2" # Space separated list of names of jails
jail_mambo2_rootdir="/usr/jails/j01" # jail's root directory
jail_mambo2_hostname="mambo2.ug" # jail's hostname
jail_mambo2_ip="192.168.100.174" # jail's IP address
jail_mambo2_devfs_enable="YES" # mount devfs in the jail
jail_mambo2_devfs_ruleset="mambo2_ruleset" # devfs ruleset to apply to jail
here is my jail ifconfig output
mambo2# ifconfig
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 00:c1:28:00:48:db
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
mambo2#
It does not show the IP address I configured within /etc/rc.conf. But, when I list the running jails, it shows the right IP address.
Here is a list of jails running
[root@mambo /usr/home/jtumusiime]# jls
JID IP Address Hostname Path
5 192.168.100.174 mambo2.ug /usr/jails/j01
I also created a /etc/resolv.conf for nameservers. This was not in existence so I'm not quite sure if it is necessary?
mambo2# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.100.251
nameserver 8.8.8.8
mambo2#
my host has 4 ip addresses, 3 public and one private: 192.168.100.173
I tried creating a jail using ezjail and this does not work out.
[root@mambo /usr/src]# ezjail-admin update -p -i
Error: Cannot find your copy of the FreeBSD source tree in .
Consider using 'ezjail-admin install' to create the base jail from an ftp server.
[root@mambo /usr/src]#
I have an updated copy of freebsd 7.1 source tree from SVN in /usr/src/
[root@mambo /usr/src]# svn info
Path: .
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/7.1.0
Repository Root: http://svn.freebsd.org/base
Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
Revision: 243371
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: kensmith
Last Changed Rev: 186660
Last Changed Date: 2009-01-01 01:57:14 +0300 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009)
[root@mambo /usr/src]#
and I did
#make buildworld
while building the first jail i.e mambo2
Here is an excerpt of ouput of ezjail-admin install
...
221 Goodbye.
Trying 193.162.146.4...
Connected to ftp.freebsd.org.
220 ftp.beastie.tdk.net FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password.
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Type set to I.
550 pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/7.1-RELEASE/base: No such file or directory.
221 Goodbye.
Could not fetch base from ftp.freebsd.org.
Maybe your release (7.1-RELEASE) is specified incorrectly or the host ftp.freebsd.org does not provide that release build.
Use the -r option to specify an existing release or the -h option to specify an alternative ftp server.
Querying your ftp-server... The ftp server you specified (ftp.freebsd.org) seems to provide the following builds:
Trying 193.162.146.4...
total 10
drwxrwxr-x 13 1006 1006 512 Feb 20 2011 8.2-RELEASE
drwxrwxr-x 13 1006 1006 512 Apr 10 2012 8.3-RELEASE
lrwxr-xr-x 1 1006 1006 16 Jan 7 2012 9.0-RELEASE -> i386/9.0-RELEASE
drwxrwxr-x 7 1006 1006 1024 Feb 19 2012 ISO-IMAGES
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1006 1006 637 Nov 23 2005 README.TXT
drwxrwxr-x 5 1006 1006 512 Nov 2 02:59 i386
I do not want to upgrade my freebsd installation. I have googled around; but all in vail.
Thank you
